Global South’s cities are undergoing fast urbanization, resulting in a demand for additional housing that governments are unable to meet. By 2050, approximately an additional three billion people will be living in improvised housing. Despite these projections, many top policymakers are still focused on preventing informal urbanization. It’s important to recognize that in developing-world cities, informal activities dominate every element of social and economic activity. Informality has been highlighted as the key mechanism of urbanization and urban growth throughout Africa and much of emerging Asia. The phenomenon of informality as a kind of urbanism has been limited to developing countries’ urbanization processes.